Common Sense Media reviews

3.8

61% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)

James Steyer

60% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Common Sense Media has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 56 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Common Sense Media employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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56 reviews
3.0
Feb 2, 2022
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Pros

Great benefits and nice people. Great mission to serve parents, families, and kids in this content-driven and tech-saturated world. The internship program has been improving in the last few years. Well-funded, big visions.

Cons

Needs improvement in diversity, especially in top leadership roles. Founder-driven, which can lead to a narrow vision. If you start as a coordinator or manager, it can be difficult to have opportunities to move ahead in your career. It seems they hire a lot of directors and senior roles and not enough coordinators and managers to actually carry out the visions. Then the teams are limited in bandwidth. For claiming they are about DEI, serving diverse audiences, and giving diverse people "a seat at the table", they need to do better at actually listening to diverse employees and implementing new ideas.

5.0
Jun 25, 2021

Content Reviewer

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Pros

good flexible hours to work with

Cons

not a lot of growth, mundane work

3.0
Jun 1, 2021

ups and downs

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Pros

good for gaining experience, lots of smart and passionate people to work with and learn from, fast paced environment. mission and programs are important and worthy.

Cons

some of the leadership can be very frustrating to work with, and borderline abusive. top-down culture suffers from institutional sexism and racism. some work hard against it, and others are continuously problematic.

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